mLuby

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by mLuby 7y ago
> her fans urged her to show her face and remove her filter but she refused, instead apparently saying: "I can't show my face until I receive gifts worth 100,000 yuan ($11,950). After all, I'm a good-looking host." Fo
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Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch(bbc.com)
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by mLuby 7y ago
>the information sharing site GitHub I mean if that's what some legal news site calls it… :P
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by mLuby 7y ago
Yes, you can get to it from FTC.gov: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings/refunds/eq...
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by mLuby 7y ago
A "viscous kidnapping force" is an especially sticky problem. ^__^;
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by mLuby 7y ago
This sounds like a noble tool, unless it's not. In the most cynical case, sharing your contacts and location via this app could make ICE's job much easier. How can people tell which it is?
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by mLuby 7y ago
I question the inclusion of Nakamoto in that list. Is there anything to suggest that they have 10X engineering abilities? Nobody says Einstein was a 10Xer even if his Annus Mirabilis had orders of magnitude more positive effect on humanity.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Would you kindly elaborate on that? I have enormous respect for the difficulty of the training that doctors like your spouse have gone through, and yet I share the quoted sentiment. We assume that difficulty is essential to the work, an
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by mLuby 7y ago
Since not everyone will get the reference: according to the Christian Bible's New Testament, this is what Pontius Pilate (the Roman administrator who sentenced Jesus Christ to death) said when he reluctantly allowed the angry mob to de
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by mLuby 7y ago
1. If the company has recordings, governments can hoover them up. And once one govt agency has them, sometimes other agencies get access. 2. Sounds like you're okay with Google using your private communication to enhance its products.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Not all impact needs to be at-scale. Perhaps you can make a difference outside of work, and/or at a local or individual level? While the systems crowd that congregates on HN may discount this kind of "last mile" effort, it ca
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by mLuby 7y ago
Yes, but the thing you're excelling at may not be what it seems at first glance. It is possible to be excellent at enjoying a simple life (most of us are terrible at it). It is possible to enjoy being terrible at something because it&#
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by mLuby 7y ago
If this is how we're using words now, I got in an antigravity room (elevator) before boarding a long-range antigravity transport (airplane). The future is now…
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by mLuby 7y ago
Thanks, that is a great counterpoint. I'll reconsider my position.
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by mLuby 7y ago
Technically yes, but the key difference is that those index funds are equally available to rich and poor, and the returns are the same for everyone (mostly). Contrast that with the plethora of wealth-increasing opportunities that are not
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by mLuby 7y ago
Lightspeed-limited message (eg radio, laser): take a collective breath, agree on a response from the UN GA, then coordinate a broadcast from all possible transmitters globally. We want to show pro-social behavor and also strength in unity (
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by mLuby 7y ago
>Even if 599 of those are false positives, that 600th person would probably never have been caught. Society needs to accept that some percentage of crimes will invariably occur. Our question is "what maximum level of crime can we
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by mLuby 7y ago
It doesn't look like fatalism to me; the argument is based on the bandwagon effect and how dramatic outcomes can be arrived at through incremental changes.
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by mLuby 7y ago
>"China is using technology for the perfection of dictatorship." -Pete Buttigieg, 2020 US presidential candidate PRC may be blazing the trail, but as the tech becomes proved and available, I won't be surprised to see creep
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by mLuby 7y ago
I'm surprised we haven't seen more hard sci-fi in the jovian or cronian systems. While constant 1g acceleration drives open the whole solar system to the ~month travel time that benefits stories, much more realistic accelerations
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by mLuby 7y ago
{China,USA} pressured London police to arrest political enemy, says watchdog The first time you compromise your principles is hard. Extraordinary circumstances, a special request in a special relationship, etc. The second time is easier…
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by mLuby 7y ago
NSA's job is to eavesdrop on hostile foreign actors' communications, while not infringing on the privacy of US citizens. AFGSC (formerly Strategic Air Command)'s job is to provide a credible nuclear deterrent while not losing
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by mLuby 7y ago
Agreed. Where's my Grey Tribe at? Also would have been nice to see what Dems and Reps think of independents: are they viewed as centrist wafflers or unmoored radicals?
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by mLuby 7y ago
Thoughts and prayers!
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by mLuby 7y ago
Here's a revolutionary idea in case Sir Jony is reading: Make it lighter and thicker . Seriously, until it's as light as a phone I don't mind if they keep shaving weight off. But there's very little to be gained by goin
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by mLuby 7y ago
People are asking for Face ID on laptops?! I have an EFF sticker over my 2015 MBPR's webcam thank you very much…
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by mLuby 7y ago
TL;DR: they replicated the famous study about liberals and conservatives reacting differently to threats, finding no difference. Science (a famous journal) refused to publish the null replication. >We believe that it is bad policy for jo
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by mLuby 7y ago
Why does the article link say (google.com) when it's from the Financial Times (ft.com)?
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by mLuby 7y ago
Huh, I thought it was the opposite: >we use the term exception for expected but irregular situations at runtime and the term error for mistakes in the running program that can be resolved only by fixing the program. https://wi
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by mLuby 7y ago
I pray we don't make it that far, but one thing's for sure—–the place we'd emerge into wouldn't be an "honest" one. Even assuming your best case where every citizen can watch their watchers and elites and that

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